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Docker is weird

What HN thinks

Docker's creator drops in for an AMA; the thread turns into a warm reunion, briefly interrupted by a fistfight over what 'bridge' means.

Gratitude and nostalgia for Docker
Most commenters thank Solomon Hykes, share memories of the 2013 PyCon lightning talk and dotCloud, and credit Docker with ending 'works on my machine'.
Docker's design and business missteps
Some argue Docker ignored sysadmin and enterprise needs, from network naming to registry syntax. Hykes himself says the commercial failures were self-inflicted through siloed teams and no single product vision.
Go was the right choice then
Hykes explains Go was picked for single-binary distribution and easy contribution. One commenter insists Go only took off because of Docker and that Rust or C++ would have been better, and others push back on that.

Consensus: Docker was a transformative shift in how software is developed and deployed, even though its company struggled to make money from it.

Recommended in the comments

Dagger ↗ (tool): Hykes and other commenters praised it for container-based CI pipelines that can also run Dockerfiles and Compose files.
Incus (tool): Praised for handling VMs, LXC and OCI containers under one Docker-like CLI, with clustering and snapshots.
systemd-nspawn ↗ (tool): Fans said it is simple and works almost out of the box for both system and application containers.
OrbStack (product): Recommended because each container gets its own IP address and mDNS hostname instead of relying on port forwarding.